On Sizes and Sizing: One Is Never Enough
On sizing in craft patterns: a publisher and editor’s perspective on the importance of including multiple sizes when designing accessory patterns.
Read MoreOn sizing in craft patterns: a publisher and editor’s perspective on the importance of including multiple sizes when designing accessory patterns.
Read MoreWith courage and grace, Kate Atherley shares an intimate essay about her ongoing journey through grief, and the healing power of the things we make.
Read More[Open Access] A few notes on Digits & Threads’s approach to garment sizing in our published patterns, and guidance for designers wishing to submit patterns.
Read More[Open Access] One of the most unsung spring cleaning tasks is washing woollens before storing them through the warm-weather months. Here, Kate Atherley explains the why and the how, including a discussion of effective cleansers, why a good washing keeps moths away, and how the dog’s crate can be a crucial tool.
Read More[Open Access] Editorial Director Kate Atherley knits as her primary craft, but when we received designer Stephanie Erin’s pattern for the Willow Cardigan, she flexed her crochet muscles to make one for herself. Read about the slight modifications she made, and see her cardigan in action!
Read More[Open Access] Textile artist Alisa McRonald spent much of the fall and winter of 2020 searching in vain for black T-shirts. She was working on a weaving called “Pierrot,” the last in her “My Little Arcana” series of tapestries, and finding the materials she needed was proving to be a struggle. Kate Atherley chatted with the artist about her work, and about the unexpected challenges the pandemic had created for her.
Read MoreWhen designer (and D&T editorial director) Kate Atherley learned of a yarn maker on Vancouver Island who is on a mission to develop a fully Canadian, non-superwash, non-synthetic sock yarn, she immediately reached out. One result of that outreach is a pair of socks Kate designed using this extraordinary yarn. Featuring ribbing and cables, with opportunities for the knitter to make key design choices, the Rathtrevor Socks are made in the wool/mohair blend Barn Swallow sock yarn by The Small Bird Workshop.
Read MoreThe prospect of hand-washing drives lots of makers to avoid using non-superwash wool, but washing wooly items like socks, toques and mitts by hand is simple to do and doesn’t take much time. Learn how to do it in this straightforward tutorial.
Read More“Being a textile artist places one in a curious place within the art world,” says Jennifer Smith-Windsor. “It is a very niche area and often hard to define. Am I an artist? A craftsperson? A craft-artist? An artistic craftsperson? It’s not always easy explaining what my work is about.” Read more of her interview about her work and her current exhibition, Security Blanket, at Craft Ontario.
Read More[Open Access] Knitting is the common thread connecting the stories of Sylvia Olsen’s new book, but the tales told are about so much more than craft. We readers are granted a view into the lives of knitters and new perspectives on the country we inhabit.
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